road
要点道路、道
意味
- 道路,道;街道
- (都市・町の)…街,…通り(street);《the…Roadとして》…街道;通例Rdと訳し固有名詞に付けて
- (ある目的に至る)道(course),手段(means)《+to+名》
- 鉄道(railroad)
- =roadstead
例文
I saw a little girl sitting by the road, crying.
道路で、泣きながら座っている少女を見かけた。
You should be very careful in crossing the road.
道路を横断する時には、特に注意しなければなりません。
There's a constant flow of traffic on this road.
この通りは車の流れが絶えない。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots. Cognates include West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway). The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late — Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar — and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway (“a way for riding on”) as saying way twice, in other words as a tautological compound.